Brake device for motor-vehicles.



. V PATENTED MAY 31', 1904; i F. E STANLEY.

BRAKE DEVICE FOR MOTOR VEHICLES. I APPLICATION rum) JAN. 30, 1903.

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.UNITED V STATES Patented May 31, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

- FRANCIS E. STANLEY, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BRAKE DEVICE FORMOTOFl -VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of. Letters Patent No. 761,329, dated May 31, 1904.

i I Application filed January 30, 1903. Serial No. 14:1,177. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANcIs E. STANLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newton, county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Brake Devices for Motor- Vehicles, of which the followingis a specification. r o

My invention relates to the brake devices of motor-vehicles; and it consists in combining with the brake-wheel and yoke a band contracting and expanding means supported by the yoke, as set forth hereinafter and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 isa side view in part section, showing part of the compensating-gear frameof a motorvehicle with my improved braking means; and Fig. 2 is atransverse section.

The brake-wheel A is shown as part of the compensating gear, but may be connected with theaxle 3 in any suitable manner.

The brake is a metallic strap or band 4:, al-

most completely encircling the brake-wheeh and supported from above and combined with means for simultaneously drawing together both ends to secure the braking effect or to separate them, thereby so distending the loop l or hoop that it will expand in all directions and move and hang at all points out of con;

tact with the brake-wheel, thus avoiding wear when not in action. supporting and operating means is arranged within the usual yoke B above andin the same vertical plane as the axis of the wheel and, as shown, consists of a hollow shaft 2, provided with two pairs of radial ears 5 5, each end of the brake-band being secured to a cross-pin extending between the ears of one of the pairs, so that on rocking the shaft 2 the two ends of the band are either drawn together or separated, To effectively operate the shaft 2, it is mounted to turn with a crankshaft 6, a spline on one entering a groove in To .secure this'result, the a the yoke and. through a-lug 7 on the top piece and is secured from sliding longitudinally by a nut 8 on the end. The removal of the nut permits the withdrawal of the-shaft 6 and re leases the hollow shaft 2, which can be wholly removed after detaching one end of the brake band, the frame remaining intact. The rocking of the shaft is efiected by the brake-rod 9, attached to the end of the crank, and arm 1 of the shaft 6.

It will be seen that by mounting the brakeband-operating shaft on the yoke it is not necessary to slot or perforate the casing D, which incloses the gears and engine, while the removal and replacing of the casing is much more readilyeifected than when the arm or other operating part projects, as heretofore, through a slot in the casing. As thus arranged, the brake is equally effective against forward or rear movement.

It willbe evident that when desired the ears 5 5'may be directly on the shaft 6.

I Without limiting myself to the construction shown, I claim- The combination with the axle brake-wheel of a motor-vehicle and the yoke surrounding the same, of a brake-band encircling the wheel,

arock-shaft supported by the yoke above the wheel and in the same vertical plane as the 'axisof the Wheel, said shaft having radial .In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANCIS E. STANLEY. 

